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Wednesday by Mrs. Orchid O'Neal, who therefore
knew more about the druggist than anyone else in
Dingley Falls. Fortunately, she was not a gossip, or at
least she did not grasp the significance of those clues
which he preferred to keep secret, or at least she had
no one to tell them to but her sister, Sarah
MacDermott. Mrs. O'Neal, had, however, made a
discovery today, by cleaning on Tuesday rather than
Wednesday, that she thought she should share. To her
amazement, Mr. Smalter kept a machine gun under his
bed and could have been dreaming of destroying them
all.
There was another gun the town already knew
about. This was Limus Barnum's .357 Magnum, with
which he had shot himself through the heel of his
bedroom slipper, while chasing a, he said, black burglar
across his front lawn and through June Hayes's herb
garden. The burglar had allegedly escaped with a tape
cassette and a vicuna jacket, and Limus had
subsequently appeared in a photograph in the Dingley
Day, pointing at the pistol with which he had protected
his home.